placental
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- adjective
- /pləˈsɛntəl/
- Specialized
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placentario
- In pregnancy, a successful outcome is highly dependent on satisfactory placental development and sustained placental function.
- placental donation
- placental tissue
- placental infection
How are they showing up in the placental fluid around unborn babies?
- How are they showing up in the placental fluid around unborn babies?
- So in work by a group down under have been looking at placental exosomes over pregnancy.
- Some of you have probably travelled to Mexico to get placental stem cells or embryo stem cells, but that's another subject.
Examples
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In CVS, a tiny sample of placental tissue is removed for chromosome analysis.
Academic text (2005) -
Today, pre-eclampsia cannot be dissociated from the broader concept of reduced placental blood flow.
Academic text (1995) -
So in work by a group down under have been looking at placental exosomes over pregnancy.
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None of the reviewed studies focused on the association between placental levels and any long-term effects.
Academic text (2012) -
How are they showing up in the placental fluid around unborn babies?
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Women with high-risk pregnancies, for example, those with placental abnormalities or risk of premature delivery, should avoid flying.
Academic text (2011) -
The physiological mechanisms, including the contribution of paternal genes, for implantation and placental and fetal development are poorly understood.
Academic text (1999) -
Peripheral and placental smears were stained with Giemsa, and 200 microscopic fields were examined.
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Marsit, Padbury, and Lester have published studies relating epigenetic changes in placental genes to neurobehavior in the newborn.
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During pregnancy, the health of the baby is closely linked to the mother's placental function.
Synonyms
About mammals that have a placenta and give birth to developed young
Antonyms
Compounds
- Specialized
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A warm-blooded animal that has a placenta to feed its unborn young
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word placental comes from the Latin placenta, which meant 'cake' because the organ is flat like a cake. So placental describes animals or development that involve a placenta during pregnancy.